IT’S not been a great few weeks for Alan Jones, arguably Australia’s most influential radio personality who believes global warming is a hoax and that climate change science is “witchcraft“. In a humiliating episode, Jones and his Sydney radio station 2GB have agreed with the country’s radio broadcasting watchdog to
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DeSmogBlog: From Kermit to Coal, Book Reveals How World’s Top Brands Greenwash The Public
“I GUESS it is easy being green,” said Kermit the Frog as he bounced around a Ford Escape Hybrid in a 2006 television ad campaign. During the ad, Kermit displayed his innate talent for not blinking which, it has to be said, is due essentially to his congenital lack of eyelids. But
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Southeastern Louisiana University has "Honor" Of Hosting Birther Lord Monckton
DR Russell McKenzie, an associate professor at Southeastern Louisiana University Department of Management and Business Administration, is rather pleased with the guy he has secured to speak to students and the public about the economic cost of cutting greenhouse gas emissions. “We are honored to have someone of his stature speaking,”
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Arctic Melts As New Greenpeace Report Warns Of Coal Expansion In Australia
SOME processes of cause and effect are relatively easy to get your head around. For example, if I smash the end of my thumb with a hammer then the effect will be extreme sharp pain, followed by a short burst of f****** swearing and then probably one of those under-the-nail bruises that stick around
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: James Delingpole Raising Cash for Australian Climate Sceptic Think Tank
JAMES Delingpole is a UK columnist waging a long personal jihad against wind farms, environmentalists and climate science. A resident blogger and columnist at The Daily Telegraph, Delingpole is probably best known for being among the first mainstream columnists to declare, wrongly as it turned out, that emails illegally hacked
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Research Links Climate Science Denial To Conspiracy Theories, But Skeptics Smell A Conspiracy
IF the world’s conspiratorial blogosphere was broken up into food items on a wedding buffet table, then an eclectic array of plate-fillers would surely be on offer. There would be canapés topped with faked moon landings and hors d’oeuvres of Government-backed plots to assassinate civil rights leaders. Sandwich fillings would come from
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Anti-turbine Activist Given Role as Observer on Australian Wind Power Health Review
waubra_grab.jpg THERE are very few health symptoms these days which anti-wind power activists and suggestible and anxious residents have not at some point blamed on those spinning steel turbine blades. According to a list compiled by Simon Chapman, the University of Sydney's Professor of Public Health and much-awarded enemy of the
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Andrew Bolt Cuts Ties With Climate Science Denying Galileo Movement Over Alleged Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theory
galileo.jpg ANDREW Bolt is Australia's loudest and most popular climate science doubt-spreader who just loves to stoke the fires of environmental conspiracy theorists with his daily splurge of blog posts and his weekly radio and TV shows. The blogger and columnist in the Murdoch-owned News Ltd press describes climate change as
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Victory Declared For The Climate Science Denialists
monthly_denialists.jpg A VICTORY has been declared in the field of climate change but the lap of honour is not being run by research scientists or renewable energy bosses, or by coral reefs, drought-stricken farmers or the citizens of low-lying countries. Rather, if you accept as valid this declaration of victory from
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Climate Science Denier Debunks Greenhouse Theory With Two Fish Cooler Boxes And A Roll Of Cling Film
IMG_0761.jpg SOMETIMES in the world of climate science "scepticism", things can become a little surreal. A bit odd, if you will, to the point where you need to inflict a sharp pain upon your person to confirm you've not drifted off into an alternate reality. Like the time, for example, when Australian mainstream
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Australians Beware: Soon The Climate Science Deniers Will Be In Charge
lnp.jpg ANYONE who places stock in safeguarding the current and future climate (and for that matter anyone who doesn't) should prepare themselves for the risk that very soon, climate science deniers, contrarians and sceptics will be running the show. All the polls suggest that a Liberal-led coalition will sweep to power at
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Donna Laframboise Flown To Australia By Climate Science Denying Think Tank
delinquent.jpg CANADIAN blogger and climate science sceptic Donna Laframboise has flown off for a tour of Australia to tell anyone willing to listen that the world's foremost body on climate change, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is something resembling a shambling mess. Laframboise's trip has been organised by
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: What The World’s Richest Woman Gina Rinehart Thinks About Climate Change
gina1.jpg SHE is the richest woman on the planet with a personal fortune approaching $30 billion thanks to her coal and iron ore businesses. But when it comes to arguably the planet's most pressing problem – human-caused climate change – the Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart dismisses out of hand not
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Mining Magnate Gina Rinehart Bids For Editorial Control Of Australia’s Fairfax Newspapers
getup_ad_mining_media.jpg WHEN you think the news stories just aren't going your way – when parts of the media just refuse to tow your particular ideological line – what are your options? For most people, the choices are limited. You could perhaps write a letter to the editor or maybe even pen
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Who Is Filling Climate Scientists’ Inboxes With Abuse, Intimidation And Hate?
phil jones hate FOI-2.jpg IMAGINE coming in to work and opening your inbox to read an email asking you to "kill yourself" before another note reads "I hope someone puts a bullet between your eyes". How about another email where the sender describes themselves as a "one man swat team" telling
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Who Are The Australian Backers Of Heartland’s Climate Denial?
heartland.jpg ANY conference worth its salt needs a nice long list of sponsors to give the impression of widespread diverse support for whatever the conference organisers are advocating. In the case of the Heartland Institute and their advocacy for the denial of the risks of human-caused climate change, their just-started conference
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: How Heartland-style Climate Sceptic Campaigns Play "Hide the Deniers" Using Secretive Fund
donorscapital.jpg A LOW–PROFILE funding organisation acting as a middleman for wealthy conservative businesspeople has been quietly backing climate denial campaigns across the US. The Virginia-based Donors Capital Fund and its partner organisation Donors Trust has been giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups blocking attempts to limit greenhouse gas pollution
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: A Curious Tale of Monckton, Rinehart and Blaming God For Bushfire Deaths
getup_ad_mining_media.jpg IT was an extraordinary response, but then it was an extraordinary video revealing some extraordinary alliances. Two weeks ago I posted a story on my blog about a YouTube video featuring one of the world’s least media-shy deniers of human-caused climate change – British hereditary peer Lord Christopher Monckton, the third Viscount
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Australian Meteorology Bureau Corrects Record On Former Research Head William Kininmonth’s Actual Climate Change Experience
bom_logo.jpg WHEN it comes to climate change science, as with most things in life, it pays to listen to actual experts with a solid background in their field. On Monday the Wall Street Journal and, later, The Australian newspaper, ran an editorial from a group of climate science contrarians which claimed
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Monckton Pitches ‘Fox News Australia’ Idea To Mining Magnate, Seeks ‘Super-Rich’ Backers
monckton_boardroom.jpg BACK in July last year in a boardroom of a western Australian free-market think tank, the extrovert British climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton was holding court. The topic for discussion? How to better capture the Australian media to help push a right wing, free-market and climate sceptic agenda. At the
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